Re:How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
by vonnik on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:27PM
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> why the focus on "new research"? Is "old research" not good enough?
Because the NYT is a newspaper and they need a reason to publish a news article. This is known as a "hook." The hook in cases like this will be something new being published. It's hard to hook readers by announcing: What we've known since the 1970s still holds true. Just doesn't work.
Re:How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
by ianai on Friday December 23, 2016 @02:07AM
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Yep, same reason Taylor Swift has so many breakup songs. They sell. The NYT has so many words to push per release and they have to come from a variety of topics.
Because the NYT is a newspaper and they need a reason to publish a news article. This is known as a "hook." The hook in cases like this will be something new being published. It's hard to hook readers by announcing: What we've known since the 1970s still holds true. Just doesn't work.